EAGER: Activity Awareness in Collaborative Information Analysis

这个项目将研究活动意识的概念，它被定义为团队对自己持续的协作活动的意识。它是以在线分布式工作为背景的，这是一种日益典型和长期的工作安排。意识是协作在线活动的关键推动因素。合作者需要知道谁在场，合作伙伴在做什么，以及个人活动是如何协调和凝聚到团队努力中的。协作者需要跟踪他们的团队工作是如何组织和管理的，包括团队战略和实践，以及相互依赖的成员责任和角色。他们需要跟踪合作伙伴的相关经验、独特的资源和独特的知识、以前的贡献和观点，以及价值观、期望和目标。在持续或更长期的互动中，在处理更大范围和更复杂的共同项目时，合作者必须了解许多方面的工作状况。然而，一小时前或一周前提出的问题可能再次至关重要。研究检查、理解并为这些更长期和更广泛的现实世界CSCW交互提供有效的工具和环境是很重要的。该探索性项目有两个主要目标：(1)进一步发展活动意识的概念，(2)调查活动意识的实证测量。首先，开发活动意识的概念涉及阐明和验证协作工作活动的各个方面，这些方面对于有效的团队协调至关重要。该项目将调查如何在团队中培养活动意识，如何促进和加强活动意识，以及如何阻碍或破坏活动意识。其次，PI之前的研究展示了在复杂的实验室参考任务中测量活动意识的几种直接方法。在社会和组织心理学中已经确定和发展了一组丰富的变量，但没有作为活动意识的促进者或结果进行具体调查。该项目将使用原型工具设计和进行一项实验室研究，并在个人和团队两级衡量活动意识的各个方面和一些背景变量，以捕捉整个项目生命周期中发生的复杂和相互依存的过程。

This project will investigate the concept of activity awareness, defined as a team's awareness of its own sustained collaborative activity. It is set in the context of online distributed work, an increasingly typical and chronic work arrangement. Awareness is a critical enabler of collaborative online activity. Collaborators need to know who is present, what partners are doing, and how individual activity coordinates and coheres into group endeavor. Collaborators need to keep track of how their teamwork is organized and managed, including team strategies and practices, and interdependent member responsibilities and roles. They need to keep track of their partners' relevant experiences, distinctive resources and unique knowledge, prior contributions and perspectives, as well as values, expectations, and goals. In continuing or longer-term interactions, addressing shared projects of greater scope and complexity, collaborators must be aware of the status of work along many fronts. Issues that were raised an hour ago, or a week ago, may nonetheless be critical again. It is important for research to examine, understand, and provide effective tools and environments for these longer-term and broader real-world CSCW interactions. The exploratory project has two primary goals: (1) further developing the concept of activity awareness, and (2) investigating empirical measures of activity awareness. First, developing the concept of activity awareness involves articulating and validating aspects of collaborative work activity that are critical to effective team coordination. The project will investigate how activity awareness is developed in teams, how it is facilitated and enhanced, and how it can be impeded or undermined. Second, the PI's prior research demonstrated several direct approaches to measuring activity awareness in complex laboratory reference tasks. A rich set of variables have been identified and developed in social and organizational psychology, but not investigated specifically as facilitators of or consequences of activity awareness. The project will design and carry out a laboratory study with a prototype tool and measure various facets of activity awareness and a number of contextual variables at both the individual and team levels to capture the complex and interdependent processes that occur throughout the project lifecycle.